The European Commission will soon present new measures to help the European wine sector affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
As he undertook to do at the beginning of June (see EUROPE 12502/21), the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, confirmed that he would present a new delegated act to provide additional support to the European wine sector, in the context of Covid-19, on Tuesday 23 June, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture, the German Norbert Lins.
The Commissioner's letter details the following measures: - planting authorisations; - aid rates for restructuring, investments, ‘green harvesting’ and promotion in non-Member States; - distillation and storage operations; - derogations to some competition rules; - additional flexibility for fruit and vegetable producers.
Thanks to this progress, the political group coordinators in the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture are expected to decide, on Friday 26 June, to lift the objection to the delegated act of 30 April on temporary exceptional measures in favour of the fruit and vegetable and wine sectors (see EUROPE 12510/12).
See the Commissioner's letter: https://bit.ly/31dQYXs (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)